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Please call: Shanxi trade union officials “reach out” to workers
If you ever doubted that most Chinese trade union officials are hopelessly out of touch with ordinary workers, you just have to read today’s Global Times. The English-language tabloid announced that the Shanxi Federation of Trade Unions had ordered the province’s 100,000 or so enterprise union leaders to publicise their phone numbers and other contact details in a bid to make the union more accessible to workers.
19 March 2012
Macau Daily Times: Han Dongfang on TDM Talk-Show: Market is more powerful than the Communist Party
When it comes to workers’ rights in China, Han Dongfang ‘knows it all’. He was involved in the establishment of the first independent trade union in the country, the Beijing Workers Autonomous Federation. He was arrested for two years following the Tiananmen Square protests. But after his release, he did not stop fighting and ended up winning the Democracy Award from the U.S. National Endowment for Democracy in 1993. In the last couple of decades, the workers’ situation in China has changed a lot. The Central Government no longer takes strikes as a threat and now plays the role of a referee. Beijing has no choice, according to Han Dongfang.
20 March 2012
Reuters: Foxconn not off hook after radio retraction, critics say
China Labour Bulletin is quoted in the following article. Copyright remains with the original publisher.
TAIPEI Monday 19 March, 2012
(Reuters) - Foxconn Technology Group, the top maker of Apple Inc's iPhones and iPads, is not off the hook after a U.S. radio show retracted a program critical of working conditions at one of its Chinese factories.
20 March 2012
The National: Criminal gangs are stealing thousands of Chinese boys for Dh11,000 a son
Peng Haiyang can remember the exact time of day she realised her young son had disappeared: 5.50pm. She was preparing dinner inside her hairdressing salon in Dongguan, in southern China's Guangdong province, and Zhu Jie, then nearly 5 years old, was playing in the street.
20 March 2012
Transport workers stage two days of strikes in six cities after fuel price hike
Transport workers in six different cities across China have staged strikes over the last two days in protest at last week’s seven percent increase in fuel prices, New Tang Dynasty Television reported on 27 March
22 March 2012
Cambodia’s workers have little to celebrate during Hu Jintao’s visit
Chinese President Hu Jintao’s four-day state visit to Cambodia this weekend marks the culmination of a massive surge in investment and trade that has transformed this impoverished nation. Take a drive along National Highway 3 or 4 out of the capital Phnom Penh and you will see vast tracks of new Chinese-owned factories and huge billboards advertising land for rent in Chinese.
29 March 2012
New York Times: Two Sides to Labor in China
The shorter workweeks and higher pay that Apple’s biggest contract manufacturer, Foxconn, has promised would mean fundamental changes to factory work in China — assuming enough workers can be found in the first place.
02 April 2012
MSNBC: Advocates decry Foxconn treatment of student interns
A highly publicized labor audit of Foxconn, conducted by a nonprofit group at Apple's behest after the tech giant faced public pressure to improve working conditions in its supply chain, revealed much about factory practices and conditions. It failed, however, to adequately address what some watchdog groups call an entrenched pattern in Chinese factories: The poor treatment of student interns.
03 April 2012
A Decade of Change: The Workers’ Movement in China 2000-2010
In a new research report, China Labour Bulletin analyses the remarkable transformation of the workers’ movement over the last decade and discusses how the picture might change again in the future. It show how socio-economic and demographic shifts have given China’s workers more bargaining power, and how a younger, better educated workforce has learnt to use that bargaining power to its advantage
03 April 2012
BBC: Apple and Foxconn plan raises bar for Chinese factories
High-profile pledges made by Apple and its supplier Foxconn to improve working conditions for the millions of Chinese workers that churn out iPhones, iPads and other gadgets will put pressure on the country's manufacturers to raise wages.
08 April 2012